Tonight the meeting was held in the Madison/Waterloo WI area. We shared notes, contacts and techniques for finding remote work. General sentiments: Finding remote work is getting easier. You have to invest in some good gear for making communication easy. The work place in your house/coffee shop: experienced developers thought life/work separation was more important […]
If you ride motorcycles inevitably you’ve had to find parts. One place to buy parts via catalog is Dennis Kirk. If you get the paper catalog you have two choices: A very, very thick catalog for Harleys. In this catalog you can find almost any repair part for Harleys dating back at least 80 years. […]
About 10 years ago I made a mistake I have regretted to this day. I turned down a minimum wage paying job working for Tony Caponi. Anthony Caponi was an artist. He passed away this last fall 2015. He was in his 90’s, humble, and accomplished. As an Italian immigrant who was a boy under Mussolini, […]
Working on a ticket to address a wrong form action url being used for a different page condition, I ran across a curiosity in a jstl tag file. It seems that the value for <c:url> was not resolving in a cascading manner as had been the intended behavior of the initial author. The bit of […]
Ran across this interesting tidbit about java enumerations: you can deprecate an entry. Although you’ll have to be careful if you have data tied to any legacy entries, in which case you are stuck with the entry or you’d have to do a data conversion if you decided to remove an entry. Let’s say you […]
I think finally the outrage against the manipulation of Agile methodology is coming to full head. Years ago in discussions with colleagues we came to the conclusion that Agile had a built in flaw: it allows people to manipulate the software management process for their own goals, and since everyone does not have the same […]
Just a note that the kickoff greeting meeting for the new Western Wisconsin Groovy Grails Group went without a hitch. I will probably expand this out into a separate Meetup, to separate it from the EC Tech meetup which is hands on focused. It’s been difficult recently to find time to do this with massive […]
I just did an install of IntelliJ 14 on my development Mac running OSX 10.9 (Mavericks). When I started the IDE it erred “you need to install Java SE 6.” That was hard to believe. I had 7 installed. IntelliJ is reporting the version it needs to run itself, even though the applications you are […]
So, you have a directory with a java class in it, and you want to use your IDE on it. What do you do? You can’t just open it up as a project without a little bit of work. IntelliJ can do it from the GUI, but with Eclipse and Maven you have to do […]
I was hesitant about doing the Hoodie work session because plastered all over its site are statements like the above. But I decided to go forward with it — it was only 1.5 hours to start. That 1.5 hours turned into about 4 hours total. None of this is simple. That’s what Hoodie reminded me. […]